Heather Lamb

Famous quotes containing the words heather lamb, heather and/or lamb:

    “It’s a hard feeling when everyone’s in a hurry to talk to somebody else, but not to talk to you. Sometimes you get a feeling of need to talk to somebody. Somebody who wants to listen to you other than “Why didn’t you get me the right number?””
    —Heather Lamb, U.S. telephone operator. As quoted in Working, book 2, by Studs Terkel (1973)

    “Yet know I how the heather looks”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    “A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondency, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity.... He is known by his knock.”
    —Charles Lamb (1775–1834)